CFSAN
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
|
2005
|
|
© A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
CFSAN Centre for Food Safety and Nutrition of the US Food and Drug Administration; web site vm.cfsan.fda.gov.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories, by Craige B. Champion...328 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Polybius, Greek statesman and Roman captive...of the Mediterranean world inspire Polybius to write the first "universal history...
|
|
The army of the Roman republic; the second century BC, Polybius and the camps at Numantia, Spain.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 516 words
; 9781842172414 The army of the Roman republic; the second century BC, Polybius and the camps at Numantia, Spain. Dobson, Michael. Oxbow Books 2008 436 pages $80.00 Hardcover U35 Adolf Schulten's early...
|
|
HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW!(historians view of Hannibal of ancient Carthage)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; POLYBIUS The ancients tell us that Hannibal was a strong and resourceful...Second Punic War) comes from the works of two ancient writers -- Polybius and Livy. Polybius (pronounced po LIB ee us) was born in Achaea, Greece, in 200...
|
|
Pompeii: the last day: one August afternoon, a mountain's rumblings caught the people of Pompeii by surprise. What would you do if a volcano erupted, and you had nowhere to run?.(World History Play)(Play)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 1/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...10 o'clock that morning ... Julius Polybius: How are you feeling, Julia? Julia...Father. I couldn't sleep a wink. Polybius: Well, that's natural--you're...Excuse me, sir. You wanted to see me? Polybius: Yes. I'm running for office, so...
|
|
PROFESSOR FRANK WALBANK
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/28/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...on the Greek politician and historian Polybius, who composed his history of Rome around...three-volume Historical Commentary on Polybius - a project launched in 1944 and completed...Walbank also published the monograph Polybius (1972), and many of his 350-odd...
|
|
On whose side is history? (capitalism versus communism)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/23/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...Greeks--Herodotus, Xenophon, and Polybius. They were excellent narrators, consummate...meaning. On the sole occasion on which Polybius came fairly close to raising that question...definite and meaningful answer. Not so for Polybius. In relating the Roman conquest of Greece...
|
|
The twin towers of Anselm Kiefer and the trope of imperial decline.(Briefly Noted)(Report)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...maritime empire in the Mediterranean. Polybius, the historian who accompanied Scipio...will be pronounced on my own country" (Polybius 437). The Roman general's "dread...awareness of the "mutability of Fate" (Polybius 437). According to Appian, another...
|
|
Hannibal rising: a U.S. archaeologist is tracing the Alpine route taken by the legendary general Hannibal.(EARTH)
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 4/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...to The Histories, by the Greek writer Polybius (circa 200-circa 118 B.C.E.). Though Polybius described how Hannibal led his men and...green Po River valley in northern Italy. Polybius wrote that just such a vista greeted Hannibal...
|
|
The two Arcadias of Sidney's two Arcadias.(Philip Sidney, The Old and New Arcadia)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...information about the land of Arcadia are Polybius's description in the fourth book of...land of Arcadia, one seemingly based on Polybius's account and the other based on Sannazaro...another, very different dimension in Polybius's account of it. If Arcadia as a setting...
|
|
Punic on the streets of Rome
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 6/4/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Compiled by a fictional Greek exile named Polybius, the book comprises a series of journal...avert war are all pieced together by Polybius. There is no doubt that Carthage is...this, given that so much is made, in Polybius' account, of the rivalry between the...
|
|
Polybius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Polybius , 203? BC-c.120 BC, Greek historian...also under the Scipios' patronage that Polybius undertook his universal history, one...there are generous fragments. It was Polybius' chief aim to trace for his contemporaries...
|
|
ADFGX Cipher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...aid of a computer. Greek historian Polybius (fl.c. 200 b.c.) introduced what became known as the Polybius square, a 5 x 5 grid that used the...Over the centuries that followed, the Polybius square made possible a system of taps...
|
|
Polybios
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Michael Moore, The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius (1965). Frank William Walbank's...volume work, A Historical Commentary on Polybius (2 vols., 1957-1967), is a scholarly...The Spartan Ancestral Constitution in Polybius." Also useful is Kurt von Fritz, The...
|
|
Cycles
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...further developed by the Greek historian Polybius (c. 203 – c. 120 b.c...cycles ( anacyclosis ). According to Polybius, six forms of government devolve in...then repeat. The Early Modern Period Polybius's ideas were revived in the Renaissance...
|
|
Pytheas of Massalia
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...uninhabitable torrid and frigid zones. Polybius was altogether hostile to it, and Strabo...and Antiphanes. According to Strabo, Polybius said that even Dicaearchus of Messina...reference to Pytheas ’ work. Polybius ’ attitude may have been part...
|
